Improvement in button-fastenings



AUNITED STATES FLORIAN DAHis, on .nnoonmm NEW Yorin, Assienon ro HiMsnLn Ann' PATET OFFICE.

FRANCIS THILL, ASSIGNURS TO SAID Dir/@HIS AND HENRY B. VOSS,

oFjsAMn PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT in? ec'rronnrnereninee ASpecification forming part of Lettere PaltentNo. 50,9%@ dated November 14, 1865.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that L hmmm Denis, of Brooklyn9 Kings county., New York, have in'- vented, mede, and applied to use e certain new and useful improvement' inl Fastenings for Garments; enddo hereby leclerc the following to be o, fnlh cleenehd exact description ofthe said inzivention reference being had lo the annexed drawings, making-port ol" this specification, Wheren- Figure lis n Vertical section of my improved stud, Fig. 2 is section of the button end of the stud. `Fig. 5 isa rem View ofthe same. Fig.. e is e separate elevation of the perforating-point and heed. 5 is e View entlwise oi seid point' g and Fig. i3 is e sideview of the button end tinrl spring., l

Similar marks of reference denote the some parte. l

The nature of my seid invention consists in the combination or o. performing-stud with e, spring-cetchthet takes a .notch in the side of the perforaltin'g-point, so that the garment is retained between the stud end the head ofthe performing-point. This attachmentis particulerly adapted. to the bosoms of 'shirts in place of the 'buttons and studs usually employed7 lont it may be used for xing any other part ot er germent Where two parts ere to he held together, 2.

lin. the rlrewings, c is the heed formelupon or attached to the performing-point b, in the side of which -point 'is e notch 'at c.

ci. is e stud or button. heed hevinge' hole -ini the center thereof it e, and f is e spring occupying e'recess in one side of the stud; d, which recess extends in ro the hole e, so that the springf may trike the notch c when the two parte of the stud are placed together. v

llt will now he understood that any two portions of n garment can he attached together by pressing the perforator b through there and then placing the button-head upon the end ot' b, the springf catching into the notch 09 anclrrhen the two parts of the stud ere to he separated for the urfcsteningof the garment :t partiel rotation of the stud-button d will. bring the springfupou one ofthe smooth sides of the pcroretor b, and thereby relieve it from .the notch o and alloriv the parts c sind d to sepsignature this 7 th day of Aprh'. D@ i865.

FLRMN DAHS. Witnesses: 4

LEM'UEL SnRRnLL-51 GHAs. H. SMITH.. 

